Strategic Doing: An Introduction

Ed Morrison Purdue Center for Regional Development !January, 2014

Foreward !

Strategic Doing is an agile process designed to build collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable outcomes, and make adjustments along the way. It is a process that creates sustainable, shared value in open, loosely connected networks. !These slides provide you a brief introduction. !The Purdue Center for Regional Development has incubated the process and is now continuing its development with university partners across the country. !To learn more, please contact Peggy Hosea at Purdue: phosea@purdue.edu

THE STARTING POINTTHE CHALLENGES WE FACE

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COMPLEX MESSES OVERWHELM US

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LIVING WITH COMPLEXITY: WHAT TO DO?

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THE ANSWER: FOLLOW SIMPLE RULESSIMPLE RULES MANAGE COMPLEXITY

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IT ALL STARTS HERE

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EXPANDING COLLABORATION DEPENDS ON FOCUSED CONVERSATION

MEETING THE CHALLENGESSOME TESTIMONIALS

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RAGU ATHINARAYANANCHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION PURDUE UNIVERSITY

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Strategic Doing has brought our faculty together to work toward a common goal, in a department that recently underwent a merger.

Challenge:  Merged  Department

JANYCE FADDENEXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA

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“Strategic Doing has proven to be very effective. In a few hours each of 6 cross functional teams of professors, students and staff set a plan that all agree will advance the University of North Alabama's College of Business.

Challenge:  Strategic  Plan  for  a  College

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SHARON GULICKDIRECTOR, ECONOMIC AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

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.“Working with small, struggling rural communities and regions presents a number of challenges, not the least of which is a sense of hopelessness and defeat.  Using Strategic Doing we have been very successful in helping them achieve tangible results that re-ignites their belief in the future and their ability to impact that future.  These communities are now in control of their future and are seeing significant, positive change.

Challenge:  Rural  Development

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CHRISTI BELLDIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA

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“When Strategic Doing is incorporated into the culture of an organization it is possible to not only drive new innovation and more rapidly achieve desired objectives, but at the same time energize a team or teams to achieve more with less individual effort. Those that approach Strategic Doing as a practice will learn new strategic approaches and tools to more effortlessly manage growth or strategic change of an organization.

Challenge:  Economic  Development

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PAUL COLLITSPRESIDENT, AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

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“Challenge:  Economic  Development

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Local economic development is the identification of local assets for growth and leveraging them through collaboration. The best methodology I have seen in twenty years for achieving this is called Strategic Doing.

BRIAN FARKASCHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE PURDUE UNIVERSITY

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“Strategic Doing has been a new way for us to look at the planning process. It provides the necessary structure to frame a plan for the future but allows us the ability to work within an environment that is fluid.

Challenge:  Incoming  Department  Chair

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BOB BROWNASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

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“ In neighborhoods besieged by complex, wicked problems, Strategic Doing creates hope through the power of taking action with the assets or gifts that we already possess.  In that moment when we combine assets we begin to tell a new story of opportunity and possibility.  Strategic Doing gives us the power to change our lives, our neighborhoods, and our communities.

Challenge:  Rebuilding  Flint

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STRATEGIC DOINGAN OVERVIEW

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WHAT IS DIFFERENT?

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Unlike strategic planning, which is linear, slow and costly, Strategic Doing is fast, iterative and lean…

HOW DOES IT WORK?

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Strategic Doing builds trusted networks at scale by moving multiple ideas into action quickly to find “what works”…

HOW DOES IT WORK?

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Strategic Doing answers the two key questions of strategy by breaking these two questions into four…

WHY IS IT AGILE?

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Strategic Doing is an agile, iterative process that relies on accumulating learning by doing…

HOW DO WE MANAGE OUR NETWORKS?

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Strategic Doing designs a managed network to keep track of metrics and make adjustments when the situation changes…

CHARTING A NEW PATHPURDUE STRATEGIC DOING WORKSHOPS, 2008-2013

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STRATEGIC DOING IS ACHIEVING SCALE

CHARTING A NEW PATHAN EMERGING UNIVERSITY NETWORK TO SUPPORT THE DISCIPLINE

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STRATEGIC DOING NETWORK

THANK YOUEd Morrison edmorrison@purdue.edu